diff --git a/build_container/Dockerfile-centos b/build_container/Dockerfile-centos
index 06b8855b..20d9b279 100644
--- a/build_container/Dockerfile-centos
+++ b/build_container/Dockerfile-centos
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ COPY ./build_container_common.sh /
 COPY ./build_container_centos.sh /
 
 ENV PATH /opt/rh/rh-git218/root/usr/bin:/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin:/opt/llvm/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+
+RUN mkdir /etc/sudoers.d
+RUN echo "Defaults    secure_path = $PATH" > /etc/sudoers.d/path
+
 RUN ./build_container_centos.sh
 ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
 
diff --git a/build_container/build_container_centos.sh b/build_container/build_container_centos.sh
index 5651aaab..05efab78 100755
--- a/build_container/build_container_centos.sh
+++ b/build_container/build_container_centos.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ fi
 yum update -y
 yum install -y devtoolset-9-gcc devtoolset-9-gcc-c++ devtoolset-9-binutils java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless jq rsync \
     rh-git218 wget unzip which make cmake3 patch ninja-build devtoolset-9-libatomic-devel openssl python27 \
-    libtool autoconf tcpdump graphviz doxygen sudo
+    libtool autoconf tcpdump graphviz doxygen sudo glibc-static libstdc++-static
 
 # set locale
 localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
@@ -54,4 +54,21 @@ fi
 
 source ./build_container_common.sh
 
+# compile proper version of gn, compatible with CentOS's GLIBC version and
+# envoy wasm/v8 dependency
+# can be removed when the dependency will be updated
+git clone https://gn.googlesource.com/gn
+pushd gn
+# 45aa842fb41d79e149b46fac8ad71728856e15b9 is a hash of the version
+# before https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/46b572ce4ceedfe57f4f84051bd7da624c98bf01
+# as this commit expects envoy to rely on newer version of wasm/v8 with the fix
+# from https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/eac21d572e92a82f5656379bc90f8ecf1ff884fc
+# (versions 9.5.164 - 9.6.152)
+git checkout 45aa842fb41d79e149b46fac8ad71728856e15b9
+python build/gen.py
+ninja -C out
+mv -f out/gn /usr/local/bin/gn
+chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gn
+popd
+
 yum clean all